{"id":23254,"date":"2006-04-24T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kalynskitchen.com\/happy-birthday-to-my-blog\/"},"modified":"2022-08-27T09:04:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T15:04:42","slug":"happy-birthday-to-my-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kalynskitchen.com\/happy-birthday-to-my-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to My Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.dpsp-email-save-this-tool {display:none !important;}<\/style><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1836\/1051\/1600\/blogbirthday.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1836\/1051\/400\/blogbirthday.jpg\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a>Since I publish the WHB recap rather late on Sunday night, I usually take off Monday and don&#8217;t post anything new to the blog. But this Monday I couldn&#8217;t miss mentioning that today is the first birthday of my blog! Kalyn&#8217;s Kitchen is one year old today, and what a great year it&#8217;s been.<\/p>\n<p><a name='more'><\/a><br \/>\nWho could have imagined that a year ago when I started this blog as a place to store recipes online that I would meet so many great people, learn so much about new foods, and have so much fun learning about internet publishing? I didn&#8217;t even know that the whole food blog community existed when I started writing Kalyn&#8217;s Kitchen, and I certainly never imagined what the blog might lead to.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/kalynskitchen.com\/welcome-to-kalyns-kitchen\/\" style=\"color: #cc6600;\">my very first blog post<\/a>. The funny thing is, when I went back into the archives to look at it, the first thing I saw was a typo. It&#8217;s been there for a whole year, so I just left it for your amusement. See how much better I&#8217;ve gotten?\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thanks to all my great readers and friends and family members who keep me going with nice comments and words of encouragement. I also want to send a special thanks to Rand and Bradley, since most of what you see here could not have been possible without their assistance and support.\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cake photo is from my niece Heather&#8217;s baby shower, hosted by my sister Sandee this past Saturday. And by the way, I did not eat all that huge piece of cake, but I did eat some.\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Weekend+Herb+Blogging\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I publish the WHB recap rather late on Sunday night, I usually take off Monday and don&#8217;t post anything new to the blog. But this Monday I couldn&#8217;t miss mentioning that today is the first birthday of my blog! 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